Archive for Maricopa County

Come on in: The sheriff’s water is fine

Jan 25, 2012 Comments Off by

Retired Police Sergeant Paul Penzone, a Democrat, has declared his candidacy for Sheriff by filing an exploratory committee in his liberal zeal to challenge popular Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Penzone joins Scottsdale Police Lt. Mike Stauffer, a onetime Republican who opportunistically switched his affiliation to Independent to run. That trickery didn’t work out so well [...]

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Arpaio Campaign: Democrat Candidate Penzone Misses the Mark

Jan 24, 2012 Comments Off by

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 24, 2012 CONTACT: Chad Willems PHOENIX, AZ – The Re-Elect Joe Arpaio 2012 campaign committee released the following statement today: “The first Democrat to file and announce his campaign for Maricopa County Sheriff, Paul Penzone, stumbled out of the gates this morning with an announcement that is riddled with errors about [...]

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GOP PCs:Maricopa County MAL Conservative slate

Jan 13, 2012 Comments Off by

Recommended Member-at-Large candidates for tomorrow’s GOP mandatory meeting PARTY PLATFORM CONSERVATIVES: Schultz – Hobbs – Grimm – Costanzo – Sweeney These five candidates have pledged to continue to advocate for the conservative principles and values embodied in our State Party Platform. Five Statements of Principle: 1) We believe in the conservative principles embodied within the Republican [...]

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Conservative PCs rebut Diane Ortiz-Parsons’ misleading e-mail

Jan 12, 2012 Comments Off

AZ Victory 2012 Slate Diane Ortiz Parsons appears to believe that she is running  for the position of Arizona Republican Party Chairman.  Unfortunately, her latest e-mail marketing submission demonstrates an uncanny likeness to the actions usually associated with the Chicago Democrat Party. All of the AZGOP officers are REQUIRED to perform their duties within the [...]

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Who is Mike Stauffer?

Jan 08, 2012 Comments Off

Sheriff Joe has reigned over Maricopa County as its chief law enforcement officer for nearly 20 years, and recently announced that he will again seek re-election.

Russell Pearce, also closely associated with an extremely tough stance on illegal immigration, recently met with a steep loss in …

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AZ GOP lawmakers obvious targets of AIRC

Jan 02, 2012 Comments Off

39 percent of Republican state legislators negatively impacted The report in the daily carried an innocuous headline — Some lawmakers feel upended by new map – belying the disturbing facts behind Arizona’s so-called Independent Redistricting Committee‘s charade of impartiality redrawing district lines. Although the state Constitution prohibits the Democrat-heavy commission from considering the addresses of incumbents [...]

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Federal judge ramps it up on Sheriff Arpaio

Dec 24, 2011 Comments Off

In an absurd ruling issued yesterday, U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow has expanded the scope of a lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office to include every Hispanic driver and passenger who has been stopped, detained, questioned or searched by MCSO deputies since January 2007, according to a report in the daily.   Regardless of [...]

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High drama in the high court

Sep 22, 2011 Comments Off

It’s a rare day when we agree — even in part — with an editorial in the Morning Endeavor. But today the editorialist gets it right in declaring that with the “weepy”courtroom testimonies of Maricopa County Supervisors Don Stapley and Mary Rose Wilcox, the “political circus has come to town.” Stapley has filed a $15 [...]

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